The Lord's Prayer II University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.6.20 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems The Lord's Prayer II
ðu eart ure fæder ealles wealdend cyninc on wuldre forðam we clypiað to ðe are biddað nu ðu yðost miht sawle alysan ðu hig sændest ær ðurh ðine æðelan hand in to ðam flæsce ac hwar cymð heo nu buton ðu engla god eft hig alyse sawle of synnum ðurh ðine soðan miht ðu eart on heofonum hiht and frofor blissa beorhtost ealle abugað to ðe ðinra gasta ðrym anre stæfne clypiað to criste cweðað ealle ðus halig eart ðu halig heofonengla cyningc drihten ure and ðine domas synd rihte and rume ræcað efne gehwam æghwilcum men agen gewyrhta wel bið ðam ðe wyrcð willan ðinne swa is gehalgod ðin heah nama swiðe mærlice manegum gereordum twa and hundseofontig ðæs ðe secgað bec ðæt ðu engla god ealle gesettest ælcere ðeode ðeaw and wisan ða wurðiað ðin weorc wordum and dædum ðurh gecynd clypiað and crist heriað and ðin lof lædað lifigenda god swa ðu eart geæðelod geond ealle world cum nu and mildsa mihta waldend and us ðin rice alyf rihtwis dema earda selost and ece lif ðar we sibbe and lufe samod gemetað eagena beorhtnysse and ealle mirhðe ðar bið gehyred ðin halige lof and ðin micele miht mannum to frofre swa ðu engla god eallum blissast gewurðe ðin willa swa ðu waldend eart ece geopenod geond ealle world and ðu ðe silf eart soðfæst dema rice rædbora geond rumne grund swa ðin heahsetl is heah and mære fæger and wurðlic swa ðin fæder worhte æðele and ece ðar ðu on sittest on sinre swiðran healf ðu eart sunu and fæder ana ægðer swa is ðin æðele gecynd micclum gemærsod and ðu monegum helpst ealra cyninga ðrym clypast ofer ealle bið ðin wuldorword wide gehyred ðonne ðu ðine fyrde fægere geblissast sylest miht and mund micclum herige and ðe ðanciað ðusenda fela eal engla ðrym anre stæfne swa ðe on heofonum heahðrymnesse æðele and ece a ðanciað clæne and gecorene cristes ðegnas singað and biddað soðfæstne god are and gifnesse ealre ðeode ðonne ðu him tiðast tyreadig cyningc swa ðu eadmod eart ealre worlde sy ðe ðanc and lof ðinre mildse wuldor and willa ðu gewurðod eart on heofonrice heah casere and on eorðan ealra cyninga help and heafod halig læce reðe and rihtwis rumheort hlaford ðu geæðelodest ðe ealle gesceafta and tosyndrodest hig siððan on manega sealdest ælcre gecynde agene wisan and a ðine mildse ofer manna bearn swa mid sibbe sænst urne hlaf dæghwamlice duguðe ðinre rihtlice dælest mete ðinum mannum and him mare gehætst æfter forðsiðe ðines fæder rice ðæt wæs on fruman fægere gegearwod earda selost and ece lif gif we soð and riht symle gelæstað syle us to dæg drihten ðine mildse and mihta and ure mod gebig ðanc and ðeawas on ðin gewil bewyrc us on heortan haligne gast fæste on innan and us fultum sile ðæt we moton wyrcan willan ðinne and ðe betæcan tyreadig cyningc sawle ure on ðines silfes hand forgif us ure synna ðæt us ne scamige eft drihten ure ðonne ðu on dome sitst and ealle men up arisað ðe fram wife and fram were wurdon acænned beoð ða gebrosnodon ban mid ðam flæsce ealle ansunde eft geworden ðar we swutollice siððan oncnawað eal ðæt we geworhton on worldrice betere and wyrse ðar beoð buta geara ne magon we hit na dyrnan for ðam ðe hit drihten wat and ðar gewitnesse beoð wuldormicele heofonwaru and eorðwaru helwaru ðridde ðonne bið egsa geond ealle world ðar man us tyhhað on dæg twegen eardas drihtenes are oððe deofles ðeowet swa hwaðer we geearniað her on life ða hwile ðe ure mihta mæste wæron ac ðonne us alyseð lifigende god sawle ure swa we her forgifað earmon mannum ðe wið us agilt and na us ðu ne læt laðe beswican on costunga cwellan and bærnan sawla ure ðeah we sinna fela didon for ure disige dæges and nihtes idele spræce and unrihte weorc ðine bodu bræcon we ðe biddað nu ælmihtig god are and gifnesse ne læt swa heanlice ðin handgeweorc on endedæge eal forwurðan ac alys us of yfele ealle we beðurfon godes gifnesse we agylt habbað and swiðe gesingod we ðe soðfæstan god heriað and lofiað swa ðu hælend eart cynebearn gecydd cwycum and deadum æðele and ece ofer ealle ðingc ðu miht on anre hand eaðe befealdan ealne middaneard swilc is mære cyningc sy swa ðu self wilt soðfæst dema we ðe engla god ealle heriað swa ðu eart gewurðod a on worlda forð